Aid to help Asian fallout
SOME universities are freezing overseas fees or creating bursaries to try to ease the plight of students hit by the financial crisis in South-east Asia. Heriot-Watt - with 490 overseas students,...
SOME universities are freezing overseas fees or creating bursaries to try to ease the plight of students hit by the financial crisis in South-east Asia. Heriot-Watt - with 490 overseas students,...
Following the spectacular growth of the University of Phoenix, Jon Marcus reports on an increasing enthusiasm in the United States for for-profit higher education. Although for-profit companies have...
How can Peter Harris (World View, THES April 14) talk of Asia without showing a trace of awareness of the Indian subcontinent? A consideration of the variety of Indian attitudes to democracy, for...
Nature and the Orient
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs in East and South Asian Studies #221> . Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are...
Pacific island nations have become stepping stones in an illegal immigration racket that stretches from Fujian province in southern China to the United States territory of Guam. For $20,000, those...
A programme investigating rain forest dynamics has won new funding. Wendy Barnaby reports A new paradigm in tropical ecology research is emerging from work in Southeast Asia, and is so successful it...
TOKYO A report from a high-ranking advisory group suggests that Japanese higher education would benefit from the employment of more foreign lecturers. The deregulation of higher education, greater...
MELBOURNE Enrolments of foreign students in Australian universities are expected to exceed all records in 2000, partly as a result of a substantial growth in new markets. More than 100,000 fee-paying...
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
Phoenicians
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
For Asians who have great respect for the past, it must be surprising to learn that the number of students taking history at schools and universities has been falling for the past three decades. In...
The medieval History Journal